Improvement in cooking-stoves



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Cooking-Stoves.

No. 145,355, Patentednec.s,1a73.

A TTRNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON LONG, OF MAYVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,355, dated December 9, 1873; application filed November 1, 1873.

`To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON LONG, of Mayville, in the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stoves, of which the following is a specification:

My invention is an improvement in the class of stoves whose tire-boxes are provided with movable or adjustable backs. The' improvement relates to the arrangement of two pivoted or hinged plates, one forming, when elevated, the back of the fire-box and supporting' the other, which thusforms the horizontal inner top plate of the stove, as hereinafter described.

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section taken on the line x of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a top view with parts of the top broken away.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A. is the top of the stove. B is the fireplace. C is the grate. D is the hearth. E is the back plate of the rire-place; and F is the bottom plate of the back part ofthe stove. G is a plate nearly equal in length and breadth to the bottom plate F. This plate G is pivoted at its back end to the sides of the stove, as seen at H. From the pivots it lls the space between the sides loosely, so that its lront end may be readily elevated, as seen in dotted lines, or to any intermediate position for the purpose of contracting the lue. The

position of this plate is regulated by means of another plate, I, over which it laps, which is pivoted at each end to the sides ot' the stove. One of these pivots passes through the side, to which a leveris applied for raising the plate. NVhen fully raised this plate stands in the position seen in dotted lines, or Vertical when it is supporting' the end of the plate G. By this means the iiange is regulated and the heat controlled, as may be desired. rlhe position of the plate I may be regulated by means of a ratchet-wheel and pawl, or in any other inanner, so as to stand in an inclined instead of a vertical position.

This stove is preferably made of cast-iron but it is light, and contains but few interior plates, and may be moved from place to place, as may be required.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- The combination of plate G pivoted at the rear end of the combustion-ehamber, and the plate I pivoted at the edge of the lire-box, the former being arranged to lap over and be supported by the other in the elevated and inclined position, respectively, as shown and described. A

SOLOMON LONG. 

